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" Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. "
Frank Abagnale
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" My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent. "
Frank Abagnale
Imagination
Son
School
" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "
Frank Abagnale
Lawyer
People
Death
" One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it. "
Frank Abagnale
Will
You
One Thing
" I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City. "
Frank Abagnale
City
Parents
New York
" Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent. "
Frank Abagnale
Innocent
Look
You
" If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out. "
Frank Abagnale
Man
Look
You
" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
Frank Abagnale
Woman
Today
Love
" You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.' "
Frank Abagnale
Remember
Point
Life
" I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering. "
Frank Abagnale
Engineering
Box
Outside
" If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity. "
Frank Abagnale
Birth
You
Need
" You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive. "
Frank Abagnale
You
Little
Proactive
" I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of. "
Frank Abagnale
Will
Proud
I Am
" A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. "
Frank Abagnale
Family
Father
Good
" I was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.' "
Frank Abagnale
Story
Blessed
Interview
" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "
Frank Abagnale
Always
Going
Up
" Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media. "
Frank Abagnale
People
Financial
Media
" I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. "
Frank Abagnale
Am
Pan
Other
" Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people. "
Frank Abagnale
Me
Security
People
" If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity. "
Frank Abagnale
Information
Identity
Born
" One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information. "
Frank Abagnale
Information
Me
Go
" I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer. "
Frank Abagnale
Moral
True
You
" I didn't sit outside the bank and plan. I just went in and ad libbed because I was so young. But I was smart enough to know I would absolutely get caught. "
Frank Abagnale
Smart
Know
Plan
" People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls. "
Frank Abagnale
Out
Simple
People
" We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely. "
Frank Abagnale
Changes
Age
Grow
" You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to. "
Frank Abagnale
Number
Who
You
" While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly. "
Frank Abagnale
Undercover
Wife
Texas
" Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to. "
Frank Abagnale
Website
Always
Company
" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "
Frank Abagnale
Motivated
Gain
Financial
" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "
Frank Abagnale
Prison
Years
Prisons
" I have to be honest with you: When the FBI let me out of prison early to advise the agency on preventing fraud, I wasn't a changed person. I wasn't rehabilitated. But when I started working with the FBI, one of the most ethical groups of men and women in the world, I couldn't help but have some of that character rub off on me. "
Frank Abagnale
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